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Do not fill this in! ==== Boycotts ==== Some Chinese citizens [[boycott]]ed all things Malaysian, including holidays and singers, in protest of Malaysia's handling of the Flight 370 investigation.<ref name="LATimes-Chinese boycott">{{cite news|last1=Demick|first1=Barbara|title=Chinese boycott Malaysia over missing jetliner|url=https://articles.latimes.com/2014/mar/28/world/la-fg-wn-chinese-boycott-malaysia-over-missing-jetliner-20140328|access-date=30 August 2014|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=28 March 2014|archive-date=5 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140905014841/http://articles.latimes.com/2014/mar/28/world/la-fg-wn-chinese-boycott-malaysia-over-missing-jetliner-20140328|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Millward|first1=Steven|title=As outrage grows over missing flight, Chinese websites ban Malaysia Airlines ticket sales|url=http://www.techinasia.com/china-flight-ticket-sites-boycott-malaysia-airlines-over-mh370/|access-date=30 August 2014|work=TechInAsia|date=28 March 2014|archive-date=2 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140802181957/http://www.techinasia.com/china-flight-ticket-sites-boycott-malaysia-airlines-over-mh370/|url-status=live}}</ref> Bookings on Malaysia Airlines from China, where the majority of passengers were from, were down 60% in March.<ref name=NYT-MASfinances /> In late March, several major Chinese ticketing agencies—[[eLong]], LY.com, [[Baidu|Qunar]], and Mango—discontinued the sale of airline tickets to Malaysia<ref name="LATimes-Chinese boycott" /><ref name=Geektime>{{cite web|last1=Gat|first1=Aviva|title=Several Chinese travel booking sites boycott Malaysia Airlines|url=http://www.geektime.com/2014/03/31/several-chinese-travel-booking-sites-boycott-malaysia-airlines/|website=Geektime|access-date=30 August 2014|archive-date=3 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903104052/http://www.geektime.com/2014/03/31/several-chinese-travel-booking-sites-boycott-malaysia-airlines/|url-status=dead}}</ref> and several large Chinese travel agencies reported a 50% drop in tourists compared to the same period the year before.<ref name="SCMP-Chinese boycott">{{cite news|last1=Hong|first1=Zhang|last2=Zhou|first2=Laura|title=Chinese tourists boycott Malaysia in wake of MH370 disappearance|url=http://www.scmp.com/article/1457902/malaysia-tourism-hit-sharp-drop-chinese-visitors-wake-mh370-incident?page=all|access-date=30 August 2014|work=South China Morning Post|date=26 March 2014|archive-date=3 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903190004/http://www.scmp.com/article/1457902/malaysia-tourism-hit-sharp-drop-chinese-visitors-wake-mh370-incident?page=all|url-status=live}}</ref> China was the third-largest source of visitors to Malaysia prior to Flight 370's disappearance, accounting for 1.79 million tourists in 2013. One market analyst predicted a 20–40% drop in Chinese tourists to Malaysia, resulting in a loss of 4–8 billion yuan (RM2.1–4.2 billion; US$0.65–1.3 billion).<ref name="SCMP-Chinese boycott" /><ref>{{cite news|title=Malaysia to face losses of up to RM4 billion in tourism revenue due to MH370, say analysts|url=http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/malaysia-to-face-losses-of-up-to-rm4-billion-in-tourism-revenue-due-to-mh37|access-date=30 August 2014|work=[[The Malaysian Insider]]|date=27 March 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903061851/http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/malaysia-to-face-losses-of-up-to-rm4-billion-in-tourism-revenue-due-to-mh37|archive-date=3 September 2014}}</ref> The boycotts were largely led or supported by celebrities.<ref>{{cite news|title=Chinese celebs lash out at M'sia over MH370|url=https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/258383|access-date=1 December 2019|website=[[Malaysiakini]]|date=27 March 2014|archive-date=16 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200416224533/https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/258383|url-status=live}}</ref> Film star [[Chen Kun]] posted a message to [[Sina Weibo|Weibo]]—where he had 70 million followers—stating that he would be boycotting Malaysia until its government told the truth. The post was shared over 70,000 times and drew over 30,000 comments. More than 337,000 people retweeted a tweet from TV host [[Meng Fei (host)|Meng Fei]], that said he would join the boycott.<ref name="SCMP-Chinese boycott" /> China and Malaysia had previously nominated 2014 to be the "[[China–Malaysia relations#Diplomatic ties|Malaysia–China Friendship Year]]" to celebrate 40 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries.<ref name=Geektime /> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page